Author Archives: Tom Schindl

Talks and Democamps (Eclipse 4, e(fx)clipse and JavaFX)

I’m back from a very nice trip to Cluj, Romania where I took part at the DemoCamp on Friday. For those who are interested here are the slides of my talks: Eclipse 4 โ€“ Present, Past and Future of the … Continue reading

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Almost totally crazy?

So there’s a comment on my JDT and JavaFX blog asking if it is possible to have an SWT-Port which uses JavaFX. So its time to present an even crazier thing than using JavaFX to build an IDE! You are … Continue reading

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About mixing and matching JDT and JavaFX

What is the result of mixing JDT and JavaFX into one project? Right you get an Java-IDE ๐Ÿ™‚ You don’t believe me? Then watch this short video. Freaking cool but how did I managed to get this work. First all … Continue reading

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Getting started with e(fx)clipse and JavaFX

Together with the 0.0.14 release of e(fx)clipse. I’ve released 3 step by step tutorials to get you started with JavaFX in Eclipse: Configuring e(fx)clipse: In this short tutorial you’ll see how to configure e(fx)clipse to start your JavaFX experience Createing … Continue reading

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JavaFX + xtend an ongoing love

So I’ve already blogged (here and here) about the prefect match between JavaFX and Xtend. Now that those 2 got to know each other better their love grows even more because Xtend now has a with (=>) operator who frees … Continue reading

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e(fx)clipse 0.0.14 released

It’s been a long time since 0.0.13 but it’s been very busy with conferences, vacations, … . Anyways I’m happy to announce a new release 0.0.14 of e(fx)clipse. Let’s go straight into the changes and new features. Some stats for … Continue reading

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Netbeans nightly catching up with e(fx)clipse with improved JavaFX support

As the author of the eclipse tooling for JavaFX I checkout my competitors (which is the wrong word here because I don’t see us competing) which is Netbeans in my case. I just download the latest nightly build and voilรก … Continue reading

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It’s the small things that matter

It was at EclipseCon NA 2012 when I run into Denis Roy and mentionned that there’s a small thing that drives me crazy all time it comes to milestone weeks. The none release builds are not mirrowed and so downloading … Continue reading

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Why is Eclipse 4 better than Eclipse 3

So there are many people around asking themselves why the hell did they rewrite the whole foundation of the Eclipse SDK while I as a user of the SDK don’t gain any benefits on first sight. I’m try to collect … Continue reading

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JavaFx + xtend a sensational perfect match

So I couldn’t resist – and just for Chris Aniszczyk ๐Ÿ˜‰ – another blog post on this topic. So I wrapped my head around this builder stuff of xtend and with the sources provided by Sven at github I managed … Continue reading

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